EOBHR

Entirety of Baseball History Replayed!

Love baseball.... but sick of the 3+ hour games  and all the pampered $10+ MILLION/YEAR players...while you now have to skip lunch every other day plus have also completely stopped changing the oil in, or servicing,  your family car just so you can pay for your MLB cable package?!?  Then you may need to use a healthy supplement to reduce or even replace the current 25% of your waking hours watching draggy baseball games, plus the unhealthy brain-warping diet of erectile dysfunction, gout water, automobile, beer, and insurance ads that accompanies them: YES YOU NEED to experience  the efficient, , never-boring, digest-sized baseball world  of EOBHR (The "Entirety of Baseball History Replayed" project)....Wherein a unique possible but not actual history of baseball unfolds in an unpredictable but totally plausible,  entertaining, fascinating, relaxing, mind-blowing, time-efficient way.  EOBHR is now replaying the 1906 season.  Each season consists of a 16 game per team regular season, followed by an NCAA-like tournament among teams that finish in the top half of their organizational unit's standings.   The tournament games count in team win-loss and also in player statistics.   Really, would you rather spend a year plowing  through the HARD-COPY, HERNIA/SLEEP-INDUCING,  NO-HOT-PHOTOS, HARD-COPY 500,000 word  TOME of Tolstoy's War & Peace -- or see a 2-3 hour movie of the same story, loaded with plenty of hot , blouse-ripping actresses -- hunky, ripped actors -- and colorful, head-banging violence??  EOBHR began the project on July 11, 2006 and has now replayed 1903, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1917, 1918, 1923, 1928, 1933, 1937, 1941, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1955,  1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1993, 1995, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,  2009, 2010, 2011 & 2012 MLB seasons.  EOBHR staff hands-on manage both sides and records game details real-time as each contest progresses.  You can relive each game by reading the entertaining, succinct, picture-assisted, irreverent game writeups...  A few hours of occasional reading will enable you to relive an entire season in a plausible way that actually ADDS to your appreciation of real baseball by its presentation of surprising what-ifs.... AND IF YOU ENJOY EOBHR, YOU'LL  LIKELY BE IN NIRVANA  WHEN YOU  CUDDLE UP WITH THE SKUNKVILLE SAGA!!! The world's longest (well over 1,500,000+ words), most pictorial (5,000+ photos), with more than 1,000 archived episodes to enjoy...  funniest novel ever written in English or any other language, including Swahilian!.. Kirkus Reviews compares The Skunkville Saga to the works of James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, & John Barth.  FONT>

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8/15/15

EOBHR 1906 REPLAY #38: DAY 12 N.L.

'When the great P Vic Gazaway Willis' will is set on Victory, it is said that he gazes away from the batter...even when THORing his BLAZING heater,,,causing batters to batters to evacuate (from? in?) the batters box even on what may prove to be belt-high supremely bashable for the non-bashful floater that barely makes it across home platelet!'
Jerry Donovan circles bases for 1st and almost certainly last time in EOBHR

EOBHR 1906 REPLAY #38: DAY 12 N.L.

Game 94  Philadelphia Phillies (8-4/2nd) 4-6-2

Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers (6-6/T4th) 1-3-0

All the scoring in this game is bunched in the Phils' 4-run B6th & the Dodgers 1/2comeback of 2 runs  1T7th. 

The surprising star of the game is 1 for 29 hitting backup C Jerry Donovan*, who caps the Phils' winning 4-run B6th by taking losing P Elmer Stricklett deep to LF, scoring SS Mickey Doolan (one-out walk, enraging Dodger manager Hugh Duffy, who is on the top step of the dugout....if it is one that had steps back in those great days of yore)... Thereby HOFer Duffy securing a great view of his hurler Stricklett's juicy offering to obscure role player C Jerry Donovan...His decisive 2-run fence-clearing LF blow with 2-out in the B6th. ...

1906 is Jerry's only MLB season, as he actually batted 33 for 166 (.199) with 4 doubles and a decent 15 RBI.

....A moment restaged and reappearing for weeks  in Duffy's nightmares....Some imaginative blowhards even saying it chased the HOFer for the rest of Mgr. Duffy's life, along with the look on poor culprit P Elmer Stricklett's pale horrified furtive face, as he quickly scans for quick escape routes from the ballfield.... And away from glowering, stunned Mgr. Duffy!   

Shocked Mgr. Duffy screams at his staff:  'Who even IS this Sunshine Superman, this C Donovan??'

 

 

 

 

Game 93  Pittsburgh Pirates (7-5/3rd) 4-9-1 

Struggling, 'seemingly shrinking both in height and girth lately', notes a writer of this era regarding  N.Y. Giants (4-8/7th) 1-5-1

5-hole batting LF Dutch Meier the leads Bucco offense with 2 doubles and a single as P Vic Gazaway Willis is photographed gazing off into the distance, connecting with his muse,  between each pitch, as he almost wills his Bucs to this important squeaker of win by stingily holding the 'mighty giants, men among boys' to 5 total bases on 5 hits, all in the later innings 6th-9th (i.e., a late-starting dud of a singles-only hardly Giganto offense as far as the N.L. New York franchise management, press, and followers are concerned).

Meanwhile the home, oceanic Blackbeards have scored all four of their runs by the time that the seemingly bent towering ones who once walked the earth finally tally..Albeit even this anomalous run scoring on an unimpressive one-hopper B7th back to winning P Vic Willis on the mound who makes a careless (E1) low throw to 1B Jim Nealon (Nealon 'I could have Nealoned or better nyloned that with those futuristic  nylon gloves they permit for some MLBers (or ManLy Baseballers) in the fur-fetch-ed fewtcher, yer fewtcher...)...This miscue one of Vic's few foibles as his Willis dominates the wills of the Giants in a fine effart (effort made with fine artistic flooritches).

The Buc offense? 

6th

1.  LF Dutch Meier double Dutch over 3rd, RF Bob Ganley then gains the run by bruising a go-ahead single into LCF

2,  Vic Willis ('Whar thars a Willis, thars a wayus to a winnus') halps his own cawse with long insurance sac fly CF

3, HOFer Fred Clarke ropes RBI single LCF to make it a 3-0 roadshow lead T6th

Big? Buc comeback (B7th):

'Double Dutch' Meyer 2nd double in two frames (Honus Wagner HBP, Nealon single) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 
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